Fountain-brush.



W. F. MOSS.

FOUNTAIN BRUSH.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR.15. 1912.

Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

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WILLIAM F. MOSS, OF BICHILVIQND, TEXAS.

FOUNTAIN-BRUSH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 15, 1912.

Patented Dee. 9, 1913. sei-m1 No. 684,042.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, VILLIAM F. Moss.

citizen of the United States, residing at` Richmond, in the county ofFort .Bend and State of Texas, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Fountain- Brushes, of which the following is aspecilication.

This invention relates to improvements in oil-applying devices, moreparticularly devices of this character adapted to coat tools of variouskinds with oil to protect them from corrosion, and has for one of itsobjects to improve the construction and increase the efficiency andutility of a device of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this characterwherein means are provided for holding bristles firmly in position andthrough which the oil is caused to pass when the device is reversed inposition.

l/Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists incertain novel features of construction as hereafter shown and described,and then specifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawingsillustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved device; Fig. 2 is a sectionon the line 2*?, of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig.2.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

The improved device comprises a cup or receptacle for the oil and isrepresented conventionally at 10, and provided with a discharge openingpreferably surrounded by a threaded rim 11. Fitting over the threadedrim is a threaded cap 12 in which a tubular member represented as awhole at 13 is supported. The tubular member is connected to the outerend of the cap intermediate its ends so that a portion of the tubeextends into the receptacle and the remainder extends beyond the cap.The portion of the tube which projects into the receptacle is preferablyformed in flattened cylindrical shape as shown at 14 in Fig. 3, and theportion externally of the cap flattened to a still greater extentwhereby the outer end of the tube is formed oblong with rounded ends asrepresented at 15 in Figs. 2 and 3. Fitting within the tubular member13, are bristles 1G, the bristles completely filling the tube andprojecting beyond the same to form a brush, as shown. The inner end ofthe tubular member 14: is closed as represented at 17, and provided witha plurality of apertures 18 relatively near the closed outer end of thecap. By this simple means the portions ofthe bristles within the tubularmember are firmly compressed, while the portions externally of thetubular member are permitted to assume a brush-like form. The apertures18 being located near the cap 12, or at; the upper end of the receptacle10, the oil will not [low into the brush unless the receptacle be(werturned and the oil will continue to [low so long as the receptacleis retained in its o\\'erturned position and, supply the brush with theoil and cause the same to flow slowly through the compressed bristles.then the receptacle is returned to its standing position, the oil willcease to flow.

The improved device may be constructed of any suitable material and ofany suitable size, and will be found very convenient for applying oil tovarious surfaces, but, as before stated, is designed more particularlyfor applying a thin coating of oil to tools of various kinds to preservethem from corrosion.

The bottom of the receptacle being unsupported between the edges may bereadily compressed to produce pressure upon the contents of thereceptacle and cause it to flow through the apertures 1S and into thebristles in the same manner as the oil is caused to flow from anordinary oil can. This is an important feature of applicants device andmaterially increases its elliciency and utility.

Having thus described the invent-ion, what is claimed as new is:

1. The combination with a receptacle having a discharge opening, of atubular member closed at its inner end, means for supporting saidtubular member' within the discharge opening and with its closed endextending into the receptacle, said tubular member being provided with aplurality of perforations formed in that portion immediately within thereceptacle and spaced from the closed end, and a plurality of bristlesseated in said member and bearing by their inner ends against the closedend thereof and extending beyond the open end of the same.

2. The combination with a receptacle having,` a discharge opening, of acap closing said opening and carrying a tubular member which, When thecap is in place, extends partially Within the receptacle and partiallyWithout the same, the inner end of said tubular member being closed, aplurality of perforations formed in that portion of the receptacle,

tubular member which extends Within the and a plurality of bristlescarried by the tubular member and extending beyond its free end.

In testimony whereof, affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM F. MOSS.

TWitnesses:

J, C. FLOREA, C. RICE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

